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Harmonic Heroics
January 23rd, 2008
Update: 200801231133
Turns out that I cannae read or I cannae type and have propagated this error across my archive, and now to the Internet at large… Eddy Munson is actually Eddy Manson. The album is still Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion. You’ll have to change the spelling in your metadata for each file. I’m leaving well enough alone for now because recreating all of the symlinks after changing the file structure of my archive will suck.
Thing have been quiet on the Millionaire’s Holiday front. For Festivus, I received a USB-enabled turntable which has me rabbiting most of my allotted music time digitizing the vast library of schlock I’ve accumulated. This leaves little time for mixing and matching. On the other hand, the quantities of digital music I find myself surrounded in can only lead to good fun, no? In the meantime, I thought I’d share a little goofiness. Despite the album liner notes indicating the legendary prowess of Eddy Munson Manson, there is nothing I’ve been able to find on the Internet to link to. Google and Wikipedia both try to direct me to Eddie Munson. While understandably more famous, if not more talented, that’s not the Eddy we’re looking for.
Nonetheless, Eddy Munson Manson’s Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion is an album that is chock-a-block with easy listening melody. There is some interesting scoring in a few tracks and this is what makes the album funkular enough for posting.
You can follow the links below to acquire your very own copy of this fine musical offering. Files are encoded in Apple’s “lossless” compression so getting them to work on your machine could prove adventuresome without iTunes installed. If there is hue and cry I’ll transcribe to .wav or something. It’s the file format I’ve settled on for my music archive and it’s easier to symlink into that than manage and store two sets of files if you catch my drift…
Eddy Munson Manson, Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion
Almost Famous
December 20th, 2007
I know this guy! He’s one of my crew and here’s what he does when not providing the best technical service a late-night help desk employee could provide:
I particularly like Boogie Board. It’s skatastic!
A Veritable TV Playland
December 17th, 2007
Oh the good times I had with my surrogate parent. Now I can relive some of the magic of my youth. There’s MP3 goodness oozing from every mouse click at TelevisionTunes.com.
A mixer’s delight!
Holiday Sucktacular
December 8th, 2007
Certainly ranking in the top five shows ever, the Holiday Sucktacular was a really fun one for me. I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas and especially Christmas with the families. Everyone expects you to be at their celebration and if you travel home for the holidays you end up running yourself ragged just to say hi to everyone. Add in the heavy consumerist tones that reverberate through every single media vector and it the holidays become one giant suck.
So taking the piss, as it were, I tried to get a slight handle on things. The show is completely silly and irreverent. There’s a noticeable lack of technical glitches and I was able to drag out some tunes I’d been sitting on for nearly a year.
Here’s what I had to say about things at the time:
Fezboy! is on a mission to take the holiday season back from the commercial interests and bring it home to the silly, goofy, festive folks who make the season bright. To that end I bring you intriguing recorded oddities for your holiday listening pleasure. I hesitate to call it good, but I will call it interesting tossed in with a bit of fun.
As most of this was procurred from on-line sources, I offer links with this playlist. You can download your own copies, download the audio file of this show, or load up the podcast in your favorite podcasting application.
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De-evolution
December 8th, 2007
I’ve always loved Devo. Even when they, or what they’ve since become, strike an odd chord I knew what they were after. It’s always better to reach and fail than to not play at all. I’ve also annoyed friends and family and co-workers by pointing out Mothersbaugh or Devo bits that get injected into the sea of pop culture in which we try to keep our sanity afloat.
They came at the mainstream from a revolutionary angle. When the mainstream co-opted their position (as the mainstream always will when an angle attracts a following) they appeared to fold. I hate to use Iraq as an analogy, but it is apt here. Hussien’s power structure meekly folded in the face of obviously overwhelming force. The dispersal wasn’t a show of weakness however. It was a paradigm shift. The conflict moved to an asymetrical, insurgent / gorilla phase.
I think Devo pulled a similar maneuver whether consciously or not. By fading into the fabric of pop culture they are able to comment on and manipulate it in ways that are unavailable to someone on the outside. Mothersbaugh, in particular, seemed visionary in his creation of Mutata Muzika. De-evolutionary influence pervades all aspects of media these days. By ‘selling out’ Devo actually went all in. And it looks like they’re way ahead in this game.
Don’t believe me, read this article in the LA Weekly. The in-depth look at Mothersbaugh post-Devo and what that group of people have accomplished belies the treatment the band gets as a one-hit wonder.
Oh, and if you’re suitably impressed, there’s an appropriately de-evolutionary fan club that offers fun and gifts and the opportunity to ironically commercialize art through mass consumption of crafted oddities. I’m proud member 1221.
Santastic Is Back
December 6th, 2007
Just saw that Santastic III has been unleashed. I haven’t had a chance to listen to the latest issues but if it’s anything like the past releases the quality will run the gamut. A few gems, a few clunkers, and some fair-to-middlin’ stuff to round things out. That first album snagged a few spots on the Millionaire’s Holiday Christmas Sucktacular.
Play With Your Daughter Present
December 2nd, 2007
A bit later than the usual weekend update of Millionaire goodness. Thought I’d take a stab at mixing up something newish from the catalog of weird I’ve been collecting the past year and a half. A bit rusty and there’s no voice over. Then again, I haven’t done this since July of 2006 and I don’t have an actual radio show any longer…
Anyway, this week’s adventure runs about 24:30 and touches on themes near and dear to my heart. Breasts. And perverts. And double entendré. And found music.
So have at it or subscribe to the podcast. I hope it isn’t too offensive. And if you like it, please let me know.
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WFMU Flexi Downloads
November 26th, 2007
I’ve searched high and low for this flexi disc. The intarwebs have answered my prayers again.
Devastating Shortcake
November 23rd, 2007
Another in what promises to be a long line of repurposed entries from the old Millionaire’s Holiday page. This one originally aired on October 23, 2005. Here’s what I had to say about this show:
A really fun show this week where we hear all sorts of novelty oddities with just enough beats to tie it all together. Particularly rare gems include rap from Strawberry Shortcake, an excerpt from Devastating Dave the Turntable Slave, and a few thrift store home-made cassette finds. Oh, you better believe this is goodbad stuff. You’ll also notice either:
- A lack of announcing and PSAs in the first half of the program; or
- A sudden loss of audio quality in the second half of the show.
Again the stream capture gremlins were out in force and I dropped the first half of the program. However, this time I was able to recreate it from the audio master files on the laptop thus you get the full show this week. Lucky you. . . Speaking of the show, you can either nab it using the podcast link on the right or grab the direct link to the audio file.
Playlist after the jump
